Spirituality, Religiosity, and Immune Functioning

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dying Process; Depression; Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00066924

F31AT001769-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether religiosity and spirituality are related to immune functioning, as measured by interleukin-6 blood plasma level, among terminally ill cancer patients.

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inpatient at Calvary Hospital
• Diagnosis of terminal cancer
• Score of 20 or above on Mini-Mental State Exam

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of a psychiatric disorder that would preclude the production of meaningful data